George Amabile has published his poetry, fiction and non-fiction in the USA, Canada, Europe, England, Wales, South America, Australia and New Zealand in over a hundred anthologies, magazines, journals and periodicals. He is the author of twelve books, and his poetry has won numerous awards including the CAA National Prize, the CBC Literary Competition, the Petra Kenney International Competition, the MAC national poetry contest, the Bressani award, and the National Magazine Awards. Operation Stealth Seed, his first novel, won the Michael von Rooy award for genre fiction. Amabile lives in Winnipeg.